Characterizing the microstructural basis of "unidentified bright objects" in neurofibromatosis type 1: A combined in vivo multicomponent T2 relaxation and multi-shell diffusion MRI analysis

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 649-658

  Billiet, Thibo ^a,b,c   Mädler, Burkhard ^d   D'Arco, Felice ^e   Peeters, Ronald ^b,c   Deprez, Sabine ^a,b,c   Plasschaert, Ellen ^b,f   Leemans, Alexander ^g   Zhang, Hui ^h   Den Bergh, Bea Van ^f,i   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^b,c,f   Legius, Eric ^b,f   Sunaert, Stefan ^a,b,c   Emsell, Louise ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience and Disease O and N4   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI); Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Myelin water imaging (MWI); Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI); Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1); Unidentified bright objects (UBOs)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISPERSION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEURITE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; CELL DENSITY; CHILD; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISPERSION DENSITY IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MULTI EXPONENTIAL T2 RELAXATION IMAGING; NEURITE ORIENTATION DISPERSION AND DENSITY IMAGING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; SCHOOL CHILD; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEISURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY;

MYELIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; RELAXATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84898935235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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